A Thoroughly Efficient NavyBrookings Institution, 1987 - 130 pages |
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... possible to halt the exchanges . And insofar as a postwar nuclear reserve might be useful , the SSBNs can provide it either from the forces withheld from attacking cities ( if , as is to be hoped , they are not used ) , or from the ...
... possible to halt the exchanges . And insofar as a postwar nuclear reserve might be useful , the SSBNs can provide it either from the forces withheld from attacking cities ( if , as is to be hoped , they are not used ) , or from the ...
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... possible to retain the B - 52 and FB - 111 bombers and all the Minuteman ICBMs in the strategic forces for many more years , and even to add both the Stealth bomber and some version of the small ICBM . Certainly they would help to ...
... possible to retain the B - 52 and FB - 111 bombers and all the Minuteman ICBMs in the strategic forces for many more years , and even to add both the Stealth bomber and some version of the small ICBM . Certainly they would help to ...
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... possible , by force if necessary . One outgrowth of that choice has been the establishment of what was originally known as the rapid deployment force but is now called more modestly the U.S. Central Command ( USCENTCOM ) . Another off ...
... possible , by force if necessary . One outgrowth of that choice has been the establishment of what was originally known as the rapid deployment force but is now called more modestly the U.S. Central Command ( USCENTCOM ) . Another off ...
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Defense of the Navy | 5 |
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